The Washington Post, March 16th, 1998
We take it for granted, but media depend on it. Lawyers, doctors and spies depend on it. Linda Tripp depended on it. We all depend on it: for music, entertainment, interviews, oral history, talking books, a handy way of recording, storing and playing back everything from children's babble to testimony in court. It is the simple but ubiquitous little 2 1/2-inch by 4-inch cassette package of magnetic audiotape. Before the cassette, tape recordings were made on large, unwieldy reel-to-reel machines. The tape cassette was developed by a maverick inventor, Peter Carl Goldmark, who wanted to enjoy g...
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